Yan Hao returned to the dormitory, took a shower, and suddenly felt hungry. He glanced at the time and it showed 6:30 in the evening.

There is a two-hour time difference between the No. 3 Deserted Planet and the Capital Planet. According to the time here, it should be 8:30 in the evening now.

"I don't know if there is anything to eat." Yan Hao had been fed three meals a day by Sheng Heng for two months in a row, and he had developed very regular eating habits. Not to mention being hungry at regular times and places, even every time he was hungry, if he didn't eat something, he would feel uneasy, as if he had forgotten something important.

This phenomenon is a huge change compared to the past. You know, it was normal for him to skip four or five meals before.

Yan Hao used the terminal to log into the base's internal website. As soon as he entered, he was pushed a base novice navigation manual, which detailed the food, clothing, housing and transportation in the base, as well as methods to earn points.

"Three points for a day's room, one point for a meal, and if you buy on credit for a day, the points will double. The people in this base are so shady." Yan Hao couldn't help but be shocked by the harsh terms. "Forget it, let's buy dinner on credit first. Fortunately, my energy blocks can deduct a lot of points."

One level eight energy block can cover fifteen days' room charges, which is 45 points. One point is enough for a dinner, and double that for a credit, which is only two points. It is still affordable for you to eat out.

Yan Hao ordered a simple dinner online, and a robot brought it to him moments later. He sat down and took just two bites when someone called him.

"He Shao?!" Yan Hao saw that it was He Shao and clicked it happily.

"Why didn't you contact me after you arrived at the deserted planet No. 3?" He Shao said dissatisfiedly on the other end.

Before leaving, he and Yan Hao agreed that he would contact him to report safety when they arrived at the deserted planet No. 3. However, he calculated the time and knew that Yan Hao should have arrived at the deserted planet three or four hours ago, but Yan Hao never contacted him.

"I'm sorry, I was earning points before and just settled down." Yan Hao apologized quickly.

He Shao was originally more worried than angry, but after listening to Yan Hao's explanation, he immediately felt relieved: "Earning points, what does that mean?"

"The Federation's star coins cannot be used here. If you want to live in the base, you must earn points here. I have been making energy blocks to earn points so that I can have a room to live in. Also, I bought this dinner on credit. The interest here is very high, and the credit doubles every day." Yan Hao said.

"What?! Are you sure you are entering a federal base and not a pirate gang?" The interest rate, which is even more frightening than usury, made He Shao lose his composure.

Yan Hao smiled, and while eating, he talked to He Shao about the base's points policy, and emphasized his plan to earn points in the next few days using the master-level level 6 energy blocks.

"We should also come here for internship in our sophomore year, so He Shao, you must learn the level 6 energy blocks well. They are hard currency here." Finally, Yan Hao did not forget to urge He Shao to study.

"With you here, how can I have no place to live?" He Shao said disapprovingly.

"But I have already come here for internship this time, and I may not come next time." Yan Hao said.

“……”I really forgot about this.

"I will definitely learn it well when the teacher teaches me." Because of his family background, He Shao has a higher sensitivity to the market than ordinary people. After listening to Yan Hao's usage pattern of the base points, he quickly made a guess, "Hao, don't take the energy blocks you made to the material room to exchange materials, or go to the points exchange room to exchange points tomorrow."

"Where should we take it?" Yan Hao asked.

"Generally speaking, when bartering, especially exchanging materials for finished products, the exchange rate won't be too high. The base is like a big manufacturer. They want to buy your products in bulk, so they will lower the price."

“???” Yan Hao was completely confused.

"Well, in a word, it's more cost-effective to sell the energy blocks outside than to collect materials from the material room." He Shao said with experience, "The base is so shady, the people inside will definitely trade with the mecha manufacturers privately. If you search the base website, you will definitely find a place to exchange."

Yan Hao understood this and nodded quickly: "Okay, I'll take a look later."

Seeing that Yan Hao was still eating, He Shao stopped talking to him. He just told him to be careful and hung up.

After hanging up the communication, Yan Hao continued to eat. After eating, he took out the materials for the level 6 energy blocks he received and prepared to make them. Although Senior Xu Peng said that there would usually be no mecha damage that needed repairs in the first two days of the assessment, Yan Hao still felt that he should prepare in advance. Maybe it was the obsessive-compulsive disorder of a mathematician. Anyway, as long as there was a chance of something happening, as long as it could be prevented, he would prevent it in advance.

Make the level 6 energy blocks now, and you can exchange them for points directly tomorrow morning.

Yan Hao received four sets of materials in total. He had just finished making one set in the maintenance room outside, and now there were three sets left. Yan Hao calculated the time and originally planned to only make two energy blocks and then go to rest, but he was too focused when he was working, and when he came to his senses, he had already finished it.

Looking at the time, it was almost twelve o'clock. Yan Hao thought it was not too late, so he logged into the base's intranet again and looked for the place that He Shao mentioned where he could sell energy blocks.

Yan Hao browsed for more than ten minutes and finally saw a purchase information in a forum.

[Looking to buy level 6 energy blocks, 50 points for energy blocks with an efficiency of over 75%, and 100 points for energy blocks with an efficiency of over 80%. ]

Yan Hao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he began to automatically calculate in his mind: the energy block he made is about 82% efficient, which is only 45 points if compared with rent, but it can reach 100 points in a private transaction?

Yan Hao immediately left a message under the purchase information, saying that he had three level 6 energy blocks with an efficiency of more than 82%.

After Yan Hao left the message, he thought that the other party would not reply to him until tomorrow morning. However, he did not expect that in less than a minute, the other party contacted him through the private chat tool at the background of the forum.

[Are you sure it’s more than 82% effective? ] A person named Feihu asked.

Yan Hao: [You can bring the testing tools here for testing. ]

Feihu: [Can we trade now? ]

Yan Hao looked at the time and said: [It's a bit late now? ]

Feihu: [We are from the same base, so the transaction will only take ten minutes.]

Yan Hao thought about it and said, "Okay then, I'll live in Room 306 of Dormitory No. 6."

Feihu: [Dormitory No. 6? Are you a sophomore here for the practical test today? ]

Yan Hao: [Yes.]

The other party was silent for a while, seemed a little hesitant, but still replied that he would be right there.

Yan Hao didn't think much about it. He sat on the chair and looked at the mecha maintenance information that Mr. Pang gave him for a while. After a while, someone knocked on the dormitory door.

Yan Hao walked over and opened the door. Standing outside the door was a young man with dark skin and a murderous aura.

Yan Hao frowned and subconsciously took a step back.

The young man seemed to realize something and tried his best to restrain his aura: "Sorry, I just came back from a mission outside and I haven't adjusted yet."

"It's okay." Yan Hao had already adapted to it. In the last days of his previous life, he had been in the military sanatorium. Occasionally, there would be soldiers with evil spirits coming to visit his comrades. At that time, a wounded soldier who had a good relationship with him explained that soldiers were fighting on the battlefield, struggling on the line of death every moment, and occasionally encountered insect swarms, and sometimes they would kill with bloodshot eyes. Therefore, soldiers would have a kind of brave and evil spirit, and even after leaving the battlefield, it would take a few days of adjustment to eliminate it.

At that time, the injured patient laughed at Yan Hao, saying that he was so timid that he couldn't go to the front line to treat the wounded. It was impossible for the pharmacist to faint before the treatment began.

The young man saw that Yan Hao had adjusted his mentality after just two sentences, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes. The students who came to take the assessment during this period should be sophomores of the Federal University. They should not have been in a real battlefield yet, so it was good enough for them to have such determination.

"Junior, can you show me the energy block?" the young man asked straight to the point.

"Junior?"

"Sorry, I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is Qin Hu. I'm a fourth-year student in the Mecha Department of the Federal University. I'm currently carrying out a mopping-up mission on the outskirts of the No. 3 barren planet." Qin Hu said.

"Hello, senior." Yan Hao greeted him and quickly took out the energy block he made and handed it to him, "This is the energy block I just made."

"Just made?" Qin Hu glanced around the room. There were still tools on the table that Yan Hao hadn't put away yet. "I need to test it. Is that okay?"

"Of course." Yan Hao said, "It just so happens that I didn't get tested."

Qin Hu was stunned and asked in confusion: "If you didn't test it, how can you be sure that these three energy blocks are more than 82% efficient?"

"I could roughly estimate the range when I was making it, but I couldn't get the exact value." Yan Hao said.

Qin Hu looked at Yan Hao with suspicion. Being able to estimate the efficiency range by oneself while making energy blocks is a skill that can only be mastered after being a junior or even a senior in college, and after having expertly made a large number of energy blocks.

Although he had doubts in his heart, the mecha warriors would instinctively take into account the emotions of the mecha manufacturer, so Qin Hu said nothing, took out the testing equipment he brought with him, and began to test the efficiency of the three energy blocks.

[Level 6 Energy Block, Efficiency 82.33%]

Yan Hao didn't show any surprise when he saw the number, but Qin Hu was startled and subconsciously glanced at Yan Hao.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?" Yan Hao asked.

"No." Qin Hu suppressed his surprise and continued to test the other two pieces. The efficiency of the other two pieces was also between 82% and 83%, which was completely within Yan Hao's expectations.

Qin Hu's gaze towards Yan Hao had changed a little at this time, and even his tone was a little more polite than before: "According to the market price, a level 6 energy block with 80% efficiency is 100 points, and every additional percentage point increases by 10 points, which means 120 points per block, and three blocks are 360 ​​points in total."

"So much?!" Yan Hao was shocked by the price that exceeded his expectations.

Qin Hu was amused by Yan Hao's reaction and chuckled, "Junior brother, you compared your points with the exchange rate in the materials room, so you think it's too much. In the base, level 6 energy blocks, especially high-performance level 6 energy blocks, are very scarce, and this price is not expensive."

"Level 6 energy blocks are scarce?"

"Energy blocks with an efficiency of more than 70% cannot be mass-produced by machines, and the number of mecha manufacturers is far less than that of mecha warriors. This is also a battlefield reserve planet, and the Federation will not deploy a large number of mecha manufacturers here, so resources are scarce." Qin Hu intended to please Yan Hao and planned to buy more energy blocks, so he explained in detail, "Of course, there is no shortage of level 6 energy blocks with an efficiency below 70%, but every time you go out on a mission, the space button is limited. Everyone wants to bring more energy blocks, and naturally the higher the efficiency, the better. And the most important point is that the energy blocks made by humans will contain a certain amount of mental power in the energy, and the attacks launched with this kind of energy blocks will be more powerful than those launched by ordinary energy blocks."

"It turns out there is so much knowledge." Yan Hao benefited a lot.

"Whether mecha warriors can exert their maximum power on the battlefield depends on the mecha manufacturers. I have just started internship with the mecha department and I will learn everything slowly." Qin Hu said.

"Thank you for telling me this, Senior." Yan Hao said gratefully, "I will make some more energy blocks tomorrow and give them to my partner when he comes back."

Sheng Heng had not told Yan Hao about this, so the resources for this assessment were all prepared by Sheng Heng himself.

I don’t know if the energy blocks he and Senior Cheng used are high-efficiency, Yan Hao muttered.

After Qin Hu heard Yan Hao say this, he liked this junior fellow student even more. How could they, the mecha warriors, not like a mecha maker who cared about the mecha warriors?

"If it's convenient, can you sell me some more?" Qin Hu said, "I need to go on a mission again in three days, and I want to prepare more. Your assessment this time is just to inspect the barren planet. Most of the insects here are level 4. A mecha has ten energy blocks of this level to last until the end of the assessment."

Yan Hao estimated his own production speed and readily agreed: "Okay, I'll finish it tomorrow and give half to you, senior."

"Thank you very much." Qin Hu hesitated for a moment and then said, "Can we exchange contact numbers?"

"Okay." Yan Hao didn't think much and gave the other party his communication signal.

"Then I won't bother you anymore." Qin Hu said goodbye and left.

After closing the door, Yan Hao looked at the extra 360 points in his account and immediately smiled happily, as he finally had money to spend.

"Selling privately gives me almost twice as many points as exchanging at the base. The base is really shady. No wonder the senior asked me to ask for more quotes when I was asked to quote. The price difference is too big. I have to pay more attention to it in the future."

Although Yan Hao did not know how to do business, he had a strong learning ability. From then on, he was basically never cheated when selling his intellectual property rights. Of course, this is a story for later.